Cindy Rodriguez  

Cindy Rodriguez has covered race relations and cultural affairs for The Detroit News, was a columnist and blogger at The Denver Post, covered immigration and demographics for The Boston Globe, and was youth editor for The Syracuse Newspapers. As a freelancer, she has written for The New York Times, The Village Voice, and Latina Magazine, among other publications. She’s written on myriad topics, from hip hop to health care, from labor issues to education. Her story assignments have taken to cities across the nation and to many parts of Latin American and the Caribbean. She is the immediate past vice president-print of The National Association of Hispanic Journalists. Cindy is an assistant adjunct professor of journalism at New York University and at Hunter College (CUNY) . She has also taught at Metropolitan State College of Denver, Boston University, Northeastern University and for three years ran the S.I. Newhouse Minority High School Journalism Program in Syracuse, NY. Cindy served as vice president-print of The National Association of Hispanic Journalists from 2006 to 2008 and in 2007-2008 served as a board member of Unity: Journalists of Color, Inc.. She is a member of both the National Association of Black Journalists and Society of Professional Journalists. She was also Co-Editor of The UNITY News student newspaper project during UNITY 2004 and UNITY 2000, the largest conventions of journalists in the world. She has also mentored aspiring journalists working on The ASNE Reporter, the convention newspaper of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. She’s also been editor, for several years, of The Latino Reporter, a convention newspaper of NAHJ that brings together 25 college students from across the country for a one-week journalism bootcamp experience. She has won numerous accolades throughout her career including First Place Award for Best Serious Columnist from the Colorado Press Association, and won a New York State AP Award fo